Hi to everyone, I'm experiencing a strange behaviour of named mutex on a windows 2008 machine. symptoms: when the system event log is empty, creation of named mutex fails with a boost::interprocess::interprocess:exception with msg boost::interprocess_exception::library_error. Now some data: 1) Boost 1.57.0 + stlport 5.2 2) VS 2005 3) Target Environment: Win 2008/32 3) after a night of code digging I managed to crete a small sample which raises the exception: #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp> #include <boost/interprocess/sync/named_mutex.hpp> #include <boost/interprocess/sync/scoped_lock.hpp> #include <iostream> typedef boost::shared_ptr<boost::interprocess::named_mutex> safe_ipc_mx; static safe_ipc_mx __mx; int main(void) { system("pause"); try { __mx = safe_ipc_mx(new boost::interprocess::named_mutex(boost::interprocess::open_or_create_t(),"JAEGER")); std::cout << std::endl << "Mutex created !" << std::endl; } catch(boost::interprocess::interprocess_exception const& e) { std::cout << std::endl << "Mutex creation error " << e.what() << " /" << e.get_error_code() << " /" << e.get_native_error(); } system("pause"); return 0; } as far as I digged, it seems that the trouble is in the winapi::get_last_bootup_time(stamp) call in shared_dir_helpers.hpp, but up to now I had not been able to reproduce it on a machine with all the debugging tools installed does anyone have a clue on what I am doing wrong ? thanks in advance Lorenzo